by DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 17, 2024 12:15:00 AM
Visual Basic: Unraveling the Versions Visual Basic, a programming language born at Microsoft (side note: I was a VB 1.0 product manager. BEST.JOB.EVER.), has transformed A LOT over the years …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jul 21, 2021 5:01:22 PM
This is a tale of two projects: one which never was, and one which never should have been. One of the great pleasures of life is meeting interesting people, and …
Read Storyby Olman Quesada, on Jul 8, 2021 11:37:58 AM
Recently one of our customers faced a critical issue with COM classes in a converted application. The original VB6 application created instances of external classes at runtime that executed methods …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 2, 2020 1:16:27 PM
One of my colleagues just told me about a conversation he had with a major financial institution. Would it shock you to learn that VB6 is still running in some …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Jul 6, 2020 12:02:50 PM
Visual Studio App Center lets you automate and manage the lifecycle of your iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Ship apps more frequently, at higher-quality, and with greater confidence. App …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Jun 8, 2020 2:48:25 PM
I had a .NET Core application that relied on Windows Authentication, and I wanted to deploy it using Docker. Why? Well, I hate those "It worked on my computer" situations …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on May 10, 2020 8:19:27 PM
A few months ago we setup a demo for a VB6 Legacy Modernization to Azure for Microsoft as part of their Tailwind set of examples. This demo migrates the VB6 …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Apr 20, 2020 5:04:03 PM
If you are doing a VB6 migration it is usually better to migrate your application and all your dependencies at once. But there might be scenarios where you need to …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Jan 31, 2020 6:26:36 AM
Ok. Let go back a few years into early 90s, those great years just after the Rick Astley hits (“Never gonna give you up…”). At that time, if you where …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Nov 26, 2019 10:02:59 AM
Usually when we modernize legacy VB6, Delphi or PowerBuilder apps some parts of the migrated application depend on using a device which is attached to the client using the app …
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